The last 1,5 years I’ve participated in a research group at the Norwegian Academy of Music called “Cross-genre practicing”. The project is a part of CEMPE, Centre og Excellence in Music Performance Education, and our group has tried to find some common ground in how we rehearse, how we teach rehearsing, finding new ways to develop methods and to challenge our own conceptions.

My focus has been “how can a creative musician approach his own deficiencies and instead utilize his habits for further musical development”. I’ve worked with several students on this matter, and held several public workshops. CEMPE has now published a blog post about one of them: